Foreign Affairs (News/Activism)http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/foreign-news/
en-usFri, 9 Dec 2016 17:43:19 GMTFocus Forum15Obama orders review of Russian election-related hackinghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503154/posts
President Barack Obama has ordered a full review into hacking by the Russians designed to influence the 2016 election, White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Lisa Monaco said Friday. &#x93;The President has directed the Intelligence Community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process. It is to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders,&#x94; she said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters. &#x93;This is consistent with the work that we did over the summer to engage Congress on the threats that we were seeing.&#x94; Monaco said...Cable News Networkhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503154/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 17:43:19 GMTU.N. Warns of Summary Killings in Aleppo, Syriahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503152/posts
Hundreds of Syrian men escaping rebel-held areas of Aleppo to go to government-controlled parts of the city are missing, and there were reports of government reprisals, including numerous arrests and several cases of summary killings of people perceived to be opposition supporters, United Nations rights officials said on Friday. At the same time, the officials said, rebels have in some cases prevented civilians from leaving, and there are reports that some groups killed or kidnapped residents who had demanded that insurgents leave their neighborhoods. The United Nations reports largely track what residents of eastern Aleppo have told The New York...The New York Slimes (Old Grey Whore Fake News)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503152/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 17:42:10 GMTEXCLUSIVE: Obama/Clinton secret operation handed Port Canaveralhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503151/posts
This is a joint project of Mary Fanning of The American Report and Alan Jones of 1776 Channel. &#x93; Just a few months after September the 11th, when I think we all conclude that, however horrible September the 11th was, it could have been far worse had the terrorists had access to chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. &#x96; John R. Bolton &#x94; florida-map-port-canaveral America is facing a grave national security nightmare at Florida&#x92;s Port Canaveral. After an apparent Clinton pay-to-play operation, Barack Hussein Obama administration officials handed over control of Port Canaveral&#x92;s cargo container operations to the brother of Saddam...The American Reporthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503151/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 17:42:09 GMTObama grants waiver for military support of foreign fighters in Syriahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503132/posts
US President Barack Obama has ordered a waiver for restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in Syria, deeming it &#x93;essential to the national security interests&#x94; of the US to allow exceptions from provisions in the Arms Export Control Act.R T Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503132/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 17:01:45 GMTOn Trial, Geert Wilders Fights His Freedom of Speech Being Portrayed As &#x93;Hate Speech&#x94;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503116/posts
&#x22;It seems citizens of the world are facing a government onslaught of attacks on freedom of speech. Right now in the United States many are fearing the threat to our freedom of speech on the Internet. Many Alternative Media websites are being mocked as &#x93;fake news&#x94;. In Amsterdam populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders is being accused of &#x93;hate speech&#x94;. Speaking at the end of his trial he branded it as a politically motivated &#x93;charade&#x94; that endangered freedom of speech.&#x22;Investment Watch Bloghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503116/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 16:15:10 GMTAre military magazines becoming more liberal?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503112/posts
Rep. Tammy Duckworth worries her congressional colleagues don&#xC2;&#x92;t fully appreciate the importance of a civilian-run military. As a combat-wounded Iraq War veteran and incoming Illinois senator, she finds that troubling. &#xC2;&#x93;I believe so strongly that the military is subservient to civilian leaders,&#xC2;&#x94; she said Wednesday. &#xC2;&#x93;I went to fight in a war I didn&#xC2;&#x92;t believe&#xE2;&#x80;&#x8B; was one we should be engaged in, but the president and Congress believed it was the right thing to do. So I&#xC2;&#x92;m proud of that. I would go back. &#xC2;&#x93;Every part of my being as a former military officer says what (Congress is) doing now...Vanityhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503112/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 16:09:27 GMTDonald Trump&#x27;s choice of generals for top posts &#x27;extremely unusual&#x27; (More FAKE news)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503095/posts
Ex-officers may actually restrain a hawkish leader, experts say, but management styles could be complicated Hup, two, three &#x85; heck, maybe even four. The procession of former military officers nominated for top jobs in Donald Trump&#x27;s administration is raising concerns over whether the appointments could defy an American constitutional tenet: civilian oversight of government. The U.S. president-elect has tapped a trio of retired generals &#x97; marine John Kelly for secretary of Homeland Security, marine James Mattis for defence, and soldier Michael Flynn for national security adviser &#x97; to fill cabinet-level positions. More could be on the way. Retired army general...CBC News websitehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503095/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 15:13:56 GMTNorth Korea still struggling with nuclear missile re-entry: U.S. officialhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503093/posts
North Korea still struggling with nuclear missile re-entry: U.S. official By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON North Korea appears able to mount a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a missile but is still struggling with missile re-entry technology necessary for longer range strikes, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday. &#x22;I think they could mate a warhead with a delivery device. They&#x27;re just not sure (about) re-entry,&#x22; said the official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity. &#x22;They&#x27;re endeavoring to overcome that.&#x22; North Korea has carried out repeated nuclear and missile tests this year in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions...Reutershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503093/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 15:12:49 GMTTrump Is Wise to Surround Himself with Generals for Key National Security Positionshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503085/posts
We&#x92;ve reached an odd point in American political discourse when a civilian president-elect can appoint three civilian former members of the military to key positions in his administration (with his cabinet appointees being confirmed by a civilian Senate) and mainstream journalists fret about whether Donald Trump is forming a &#x93;junta.&#x94; Yet that actually happened yesterday, when Politico&#x92;s Julia Ioffe tweeted: &#x93;Three generals and maybe a fourth. Can we just cut to the chase and call ourselves a junta?&#x94; The New Yorker&#x92;s Nicholas Thompson mused on Twitter: &#x93;How many generals do you need in government before you technically become a junta?&#x94;...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503085/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 14:58:50 GMTAfter Brouhaha Over Women in Tanks, Israeli Army Wants Women in Warships Toohttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503056/posts
The Israel Defense Forces is considering opening additional combat positions to women, including possibly placing women on the Sa&#x92;ar 6 warships currently being built in Germany that are to be deployed to protect Israel&#x92;s offshore natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean. The proposed integration of women in combat positions, including the Armored Corps and the Air Force&#x92;s search and rescue unit, has sparked opposition among some Orthodox rabbis, particularly over women serving in tank units. In remarks last week on the issue, Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said the IDF was opening more combat roles to women, but added that...Haaretzhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503056/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 13:41:49 GMTAll aboard the warship that&#x27;ll make you Sicker (Royal Navy)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503053/posts
The Royal Navy will receive two more River-class offshore patrol vessels &#xC2;&#x96; and the motto of one appears to encourage her crew to vomit everywhere. HMS Tamar and HMS Spey were ordered from BAE Systems today as the Ministry of Defence signed the contract for the two ships, with Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin pressing the official button to start cutting the first steel. Both were ordered to take up the slack in naval shipbuilding between now and the eventual start of the construction of the Type 26 frigate. The two new ships, along with the support package for...The Registerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503053/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 13:32:03 GMTWhich Foreign Policy Sacred Cows will Donald Trump Slaughter Next?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503052/posts
Donald Trump shook up America. Now it&#x27;s the world&#x27;s turn. The President-elect&#x27;s decision to flout 40 years of diplomatic convention and take a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen last week suggested he may be just as disrespectful of protocol on the world stage as at home. The call produced days of speculation about how the President-elect&#x27;s impulsive style will reverberate around the globe and whether it could threaten the architecture of international relations. There are many global traditions and arrangements that he could target, though each could carry a geopolitical or diplomatic price -- one reason even presidents who...CNN.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503052/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 13:29:31 GMTReaction of Geert Wilders to His Convictionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503051/posts
Dear friends, I still cannot believe it, but I have just been convicted. Because I asked a question about Moroccans. While the day before yesterday, scores of Moroccan asylum-seekers terrorized buses in Emmen and did not even had to pay a fine, a politician who asks a question about fewer Moroccans is sentenced. The Netherlands have become a sick country. And I have a message for the judges who convicted me: You have restricted the freedom of speech of millions of Dutch and hence convicted everyone. No one trusts you anymore. But fortunately, truth and liberty are stronger than you....Gatestone Institutehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503051/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 13:28:57 GMTFour of the most experienced USMC F-35B pilots speak about their aircraft. (it&#x92;s exceptional)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503042/posts
The voice of the pilots is clear &#x96; the platform is working exceptionally. The F-35 is a platform with the ultimate level of sophistication, made simple. And therein lay the beauty of the F-35, and just why it will be so deadly, it&#x92;s simple. The combined F-35 fleet now has over 75,000 flight hours, yet many continue to question the performance and value of the aircraft. Much of this can be expected given early program challenges, and the reality that many of the F-35s capabilities are classified. Add that many do not grasp the war the F-35 was designed to...The Aviationisthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503042/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 12:39:52 GMTIsrael Shows How to Stop Terroristshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503037/posts
Build a wall, secure the border, and vet Muslims to stop the infiltration of terrorists.&#xA0; This is not Donald Trump speaking &#x96; it is what has actually been done in Israel.&#xA0; Americans can take a page from Israel&#x27;s Border Guard to protect themselves. American Thinker interviewed author Samuel M. Katz regarding his book The Ghost Warriors, about Israel&#x27;s elite force of undercover operatives. &#xA0;They are drawn from the nation&#x27;s diverse backgrounds and ethnicities, united in their ability to walk among the enemy as no one else dared. &#xA0;They are called Ya&#x27;mas and use many undercover tactics.&#xA0;American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503037/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 12:29:45 GMTGerman move on new ship radars paves way for missile defense rolehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503035/posts
The German military is to buy new, more capable air defence radar systems for three F-124 frigates, paving the way for the ships to become part of NATO&#x27;s broader missile defence system, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday. General Volker Wieker, the top military officer, decided to buy radar systems available on the market instead of opting for a new development programme or a simple replacement of the current radar systems, the spokesman said. Experts have said the new system will cost about 450 million euros and is likely to be built by France&#x27;s Thales, which built the radars...Reutershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503035/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 12:27:01 GMTCastro&#x92;s Torture of American POWs in Vietnamhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503022/posts
The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule. What has gone virtually unreported, however, is the direct and instrumental role Castro played in the torture and murder of American POWs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The story of Castro&#x92;s atrocities against American soldiers in this conflict is rarely ever told, least of all by our mainstream media. During the Vietnam War, Castro sent a gang of his henchmen to run the &#x93;Cuban Program&#x94; at the Cu Loc POW camp in Hanoi, which became known as &#x93;the Zoo.&#x94; As...Frontpagehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503022/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 11:39:15 GMT{from Nov 2013} In Aleppo I only survive by looking Syrianhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503005/posts
Since the rise of the Islamist resistance,.. Today my helmet is a veil, and my flak jacket a hijab. Locals here don&#x27;t refer any more to &#x22;liberated areas&#x22;, but to east and west Aleppo &#x96; they don&#x27;t show you pictures of their children, or of siblings killed by the regime, but simply the pictures of beautiful Aleppo before the war. Because nobody is fighting the regime any more; rebels now fight against each other. And for many of them, the priority is not ousting Bashar al-Assad&#x27;s regime, but enforcing sharia law. Aleppo is nothing but hunger and Islam. Dozens of...The Guardianhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503005/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 09:26:04 GMTMuslim alternative to Peppa Pig planned in Australiahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503004/posts
Sydney (AFP) - Islamic leaders in Australia say they are backing a Muslim alternative to Peppa Pig but not because they think the popular cartoon series corrupts children, as reports have suggested. Sydney production company One4Kids is campaigning to fund a show loosely based on the British children&#x27;s series, telling the story of the Abdullah family and their life in a small town with a predominantly Muslim population and an imam as the key role model. The head of the Australian National Imams Council, Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, backed the &#x22;Barakah Hills&#x22; project in a Facebook video message, saying it...AU newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503004/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 09:19:53 GMTBiden says world will look to liberal Trudeau (Insults president-elect in a foreign capitol)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502988/posts
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) &#x97; Outgoing U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hailed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as genuine leaders during a time when they are in short supply at a state dinner in his honor in Canada on Thursday night. Biden said he&#x92;s never seen Europeans engaged in as much self-doubt as they are now and said there are more challenges to the liberal international order in any time since the end of World War II. &#x93;The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you Mr. Prime Minister,&#x94; Biden told a...WTOP-TVhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502988/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 06:32:43 GMTEU set for ANOTHER hammerblow: Geert Wilders&#x92; Freedom Party soars ahead in pollshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502967/posts
DUTCH right-wing Freedom Party has soared ahead to lead the polls ahead of the parliamentary elections. The party, led by the controversial Geert Wilders, would beat prime minister Mark Rutte&#x92;s ruling conservative liberals if elections were held today. The Freedom Party (PVV) can count on 29 seats out of the 150-seat chamber, according to the latest IPSOS poll, making it the largest party in the Netherlands. In the space of one month the popularity of the PVV has surged with an increase of six seats.express.co.ukhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502967/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 04:04:11 GMTOpposition parties condemn German defense plan with Saudi Arabiahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502947/posts
The German Defense Minister was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday aiming to conclude a training deal for Saudi military officers, eliciting sharp criticism from German left-leaning parties. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen held talks with her Saudi counterpart, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on boosting the &#x93;excellent bilateral relations&#x94; between the two countries, the German embassy said. &#x93;In addition to that, the visit aims to finalize the talks on enhanced cooperation in the training sector. Beginning from next year, the German Defense College will host several young officers and staff from the Saudi military,&#x94; the embassy said in...TheLocal.dehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502947/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 03:00:55 GMTRepublicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe of Russia, despite Trump&#x92;s stancehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502901/posts
Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia&#x92;s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyber threats to the military, digging deep into what they view as corrosive interference in the nation&#x92;s institutions. Such an aggressive approach puts them on a direct collision course with President-elect Donald Trump, who downplays the possibility Russia had any role in the November elections &#x97; arguing that a hack of the Democratic National Committee emails may have been perpetrated by &#x93;some guy in his home in New Jersey.&#x94; The fracture could become more prominent after Trump...The Washington Compost (WaPoop Fake News Division)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502901/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 00:34:59 GMTThe admiral who torpedoed Colin Kaepernick? A true badasshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502899/posts
Speaking at the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack on Wednesday, the admiral made pointed remarks at the San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose claim to fame is his decision to kneel through the national anthem in a show of solidarity with Black Lives Matter. &#x22;You can bet that the men and women we honor today, and those who died that fateful morning 75 years ago, never took a knee and never failed to stand whenever they heard our national anthem being played,&#x22; Harris said. That line brought the crowd roaring to its...Conservative Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502899/posts#commentFri, 9 Dec 2016 00:29:06 GMTCult leaders, soap operas and Viagra: S. Korea&#x92;s presidential scandal has it allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502886/posts
SEOUL, South Korea &#x97; South Korea&#x92;s latest political scandal has all the makings of a thriller in which the decisions of the president, lonely and isolated, are influenced by a longtime friend, right down to personnel and policy moves, even what to wear. Making it even more twisted is that the friend&#x92;s father, a cult leader, used similar Rasputin-like control on President Park Geun-hye&#x92;s father when he held the top office until he was assassinated in part because of that unhealthy relationship. Toss in some Viagra, visits to a detox clinic under a pseudonym, a deadly ferry sinking and mass...Stars and Stripeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502886/posts#commentThu, 8 Dec 2016 23:56:10 GMT